OASIS Member News: IBM Ships WebSphere B2B Integrator Offering Powered by Extricity

[Samantha Rolefes <srolefes@extricity.com>]

IBM SHIPS WEBSPHERE BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS INTEGRATOR 
PARTNER AGREEMENT MANAGER OFFERING POWERED BY EXTRICITY 

Extricity's Process Engine Powers IBM's WebSphere BtoBi Partner Agreement
Manager To Create B2B Environments That Are Easy To Deploy, Manage and
Change

BELMONT, Calif., - December 20, 2000- Extricity, Inc., a leading
business-to-business (B2B) software platform provider, today announced that
IBM is shipping the Extricity B2B software platform as part of IBM's
WebSphere BtoBi Partner Agreement Manager.  The two companies announced an
OEM agreement in September wherein IBM licensed Extricity's B2B process
technology to be integrated as a critical component of the WebSphere
Business-to-Business Integrator offering.    

The enhanced WebSphere Business-to-Business software platform will help
companies and electronic marketplaces automate and manage the flow of
information and business processes among trading partners on the Internet,
resulting in reduced costs, time to market and heightened competitiveness
and responsiveness.  As a one-stop shop solution for B2B e-commerce, the
new, tightly-integrated WebSphere Business-to-Business platform provides a
complete infrastructure that enables companies to create and manage
highly-efficient B2B environments.  The IBM/Extricity platform is highly
scalable and flexible -- companies can start small and grow as their B2B
network expands.

IBM's enhanced WebSphere Business-to-Business platform offers a full range
of B2B solutions that span customer requirements from simple connectivity
and supply chain integration, to complete e-marketplace development and
management. 

"Extricity and its process capabilities offers a leading platform for B2B
relationship management that provides a high level of interoperability and
collaboration across trading partner boundaries," said Rob Lamb, director
business process management, IBM Corp.  "This critical requirement, combined
with IBM's leadership in enterprise integration, creates a powerful solution
for managing the entire range of B2B processes among organizations."  

The integration of the Extricity B2B software into IBM's WebSphere
Business-to-Business platform further complements the IBM, Ariba and i2
alliance by providing a powerful integration platform with additional B2B
process management capabilities.

Extricity's B2B software platform allows companies to automate the flow of
information among groups of businesses by integrating and extending
applications and business processes to work with those of their partners,
regardless of existing IT infrastructures.  The inclusion of Extricity's
technology in WebSphere BtoB Integrator helps customers easily build B2B
business process management solutions that are scalable, flexible and that
transcend functional and organizational boundaries. 

"Extricity is pleased to extend IBM's WebSphere Business-to-Business product
family with its B2B process engine and look forward to building highly
successful joint customer implementations," said David Cope, vice president
of marketing for Extricity.  "The strengthened WebSphere
Business-to-Business platform brings to market a true, best-of-breed
solution -- a single, scalable integrated platform to simplify and
seamlessly manage real world Internet-based trading partner communities that
are easy to deploy, manage and change." 

Extricity - Simply Powering B2B
Extricity is the leading provider of software solutions for B2B relationship
management (B2BRM).  The Extricity B2B software platform offers the only
complete, flexible B2B platform to power and manage the entire spectrum of
interactions and collaborative processes among businesses and marketplaces
over the Internet.  Global 2000 companies and B2B net markets can seamlessly
integrate diverse information systems into effective, real-time trading
networks by automating and synchronizing the flow of information and
execution of processes.  The Extricity B2B software platform helps
businesses improve operational efficiencies, realize new revenue
opportunities and achieve competitive differentiation. 

As the B2B leader in key market sectors including electronics, net markets
and e-commerce, Extricity has Global 2000 customers spanning five industries
in multiple geographies worldwide.  These include Adaptec, Advanced Micro
Devices, Altera, Mary Kay, Inc.; Sharp Microelectronics, Solectron Corp. and
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Extricity's headquarters are located
in Belmont, Calif., with offices across the U.S. and Europe.  Web site:
www.extricity.com


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Carolynn Sherby
Director, Corporate Communications
Extricity, Inc.
1 Davis Drive
Belmont, CA   94002
Direct 650-486-4531
Fax 650-486-4301
email:  csherby@extricity.com
www.extricity.com